Tonight we're tracking two major developments out of the White House, the rare and sudden reversal from the Trump administration, over what critics call a $1.8 billion slush fund.

Plus, the president speaking to our reporter as Iran walks away from talks.

The surprising Republican revolt against the administration's fund. Now the White House

is backing down, appearing to end the plan that critics say could have set taxpayer money to the

January 6 rioters, our new reporting on how it fell apart. Plus, what the president just told

our Garrett Hake about where talks with Iran now stand

after Iran announced it's walking away from negotiations and we are following new strikes

right now.

Also tonight, the police officer charged after he was caught on camera, repeatedly punching

a woman, how he was fired from the force and now arrested the charges he faces.

The race against the clock to rescue two men still missing in a cave. Rescuers hearing

noises from down below, giving new hope that they could be saved just like these four men.

The game changer treatment for pancreatic cancer,

the new pill, doubling the survival rate for those battling the disease,

how the breakthrough drug works.

Underground discovery inside the sprawling cross-border tunnel connecting the U.S. to Mexico.

What else was found?

This is NBC Nightly News with Tom Yomas.

And good evening. We begin tonight with a dramatic shift from the White House, appearing to back down from that $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund, which critics bashed as a slush fund for the president's allies.

That major reversal in response to a rare but intense revolt from inside the president's own party

as Republican senators pushed a torpedo the plan. A judge had already paused the fund,

and critics had warned those convicted over the January 6th attacks they could have

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